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maspaha

(688 posts)
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 04:55 PM 8 hrs ago

A woman wearing a "47" gold embroidered ball cap...

and surgically enhanced “pouty lips” asked to meet my St Bernard dog and take her picture. I said NO. If you don’t share my values of common decency, I will not share my St Bernard with you. I protect my dogs from cruelty.

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A woman wearing a "47" gold embroidered ball cap... (Original Post) maspaha 8 hrs ago OP
they KNOW what the cap represents ecstatic 8 hrs ago #1
Don't be bullied. Point at them and laugh. paleotn 7 hrs ago #11
These people have no familiarity with shame and should be banished from polite society. Borogove 8 hrs ago #2
That's one way to win hearts and minds... Tim S 8 hrs ago #3
They have no hearts or minds to win. That's why they are part of the cult. erronis 7 hrs ago #5
A MAGA wrote this to me on a FB group today mchill 5 hrs ago #28
If tRumpers could be reasoned with, they wouldn't be tRumpers. lastlib 7 hrs ago #9
It's Been Ten Years Now That Many Of These People... ProfessorGAC 7 hrs ago #13
Trying to win their hearts and minds is a fool's errand. And we are no fools. Aristus 6 hrs ago #21
No Cirsium 5 hrs ago #25
I think there is a stark difference between someone that ... Whiskeytide 5 hrs ago #32
Good on 'ya! Way to take a stand. LoisB 7 hrs ago #4
Awesome. They only hear support from the other cult members because many of us are too polite to say anything negative. Whyisthisstillclose 7 hrs ago #6
I love it no need for animal cruelty Tribetime 7 hrs ago #7
I Live For the Day When Chicagogrl1 7 hrs ago #8
I told a MAGAt I know real well a couple weeks back KS Toronado 6 hrs ago #23
Dogs are too precious to be used Grim Chieftain 7 hrs ago #10
I don't want to breath the same oxygen as those trash. paleotn 7 hrs ago #12
Actually, you'd be breathing the carbon dioxide that they exhaled. But I take your point. :-) TheRickles 6 hrs ago #19
Same atmospheric gases. paleotn 6 hrs ago #20
Kristi Noem wanted to take a picture with your dog? Emile 7 hrs ago #14
Yeah! I definitely would've asked her about Noem shooting her dog IcyPeas 4 hrs ago #34
That line from Stand By Me comes to mind: "Chopper! Sic balls!" BannonsLiver 7 hrs ago #15
You could always shrug like you're considering it . . . Collimator 7 hrs ago #16
Love that. It would be fun to count the seconds before she "got it". erronis 5 hrs ago #27
WOW! Way To Go maspaha!! Fla Dem 6 hrs ago #17
.. BlueWaveNeverEnd 6 hrs ago #18
You will know them by their red hats and bad lips Javaman 6 hrs ago #22
I'm glad for this post btecause it makes me think about what I would say and do in that situation.. mountain grammy 5 hrs ago #24
I don't trust what this woman would do to your dog. Irish_Dem 5 hrs ago #26
As long as your dog didn't bite her in her oversized lips, I think you did all that was required of you. Marie Marie 5 hrs ago #30
It's a weird compulsion for them to AdamGG 5 hrs ago #29
And their level of moral development and sanity. Irish_Dem 5 hrs ago #31
K&R 👍 Dave Bowman 4 hrs ago #33
I ike pouty lips. 3Hotdogs 1 hr ago #35

ecstatic

(34,977 posts)
1. they KNOW what the cap represents
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 04:56 PM
8 hrs ago

They are bullies. Plain and simple. I'm glad you said no.

Tim S

(50 posts)
3. That's one way to win hearts and minds...
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 05:08 PM
8 hrs ago

If we refuse to engage the ignorant and show them how they are acting against their (and OUR) best interests, they will never change.

erronis

(21,903 posts)
5. They have no hearts or minds to win. That's why they are part of the cult.
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 05:19 PM
7 hrs ago

They can go put their pouty lips elsewhere.

mchill

(1,178 posts)
28. A MAGA wrote this to me on a FB group today
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 07:58 PM
5 hrs ago

Re: The recent Epstein news

“….[MAGAs have never] given a crap about what Trump is or has been. It’s all about the policies that we want instituted.”

lastlib

(27,101 posts)
9. If tRumpers could be reasoned with, they wouldn't be tRumpers.
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 05:35 PM
7 hrs ago

If they can't see what he is by now, they most likely never will. His supporters are clearly impervious to truth or facts; only their own "alternative facts" (aka lies) sink into their cranial cavities.

A couple months ago, I was coming out of the local post office, and saw a man coming down the sidewalk toward the entrance where I was exiting. I was holding the door open for him, until I saw his shirt which said, "If you don't like tRump, you won't like me." I waited until he was about five feet from me, then closed the door, and said, "You're right!" and walked off. He was probably pissed off, but I didn't give a flying f about it, and still don't.

ProfessorGAC

(75,187 posts)
13. It's Been Ten Years Now That Many Of These People...
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 05:43 PM
7 hrs ago

...joined his cult of personality.
You think they are persuadable if 10 years of first hand observation hasn't already made them see the light?
That's an illogical expectation.

Aristus

(71,276 posts)
21. Trying to win their hearts and minds is a fool's errand. And we are no fools.
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 06:57 PM
6 hrs ago

They have neither hearts nor minds. Refusing to engage with them at this point is not malicious or short-sighted. It's protective coloration. We want them to not be Trumpsters. They want us dead. That's the difference.

I am an unashamed peace-and-love, campfire, kum-bah-yah kind of liberal. But even I know when to stop being walked on and start letting them have a dose of their own medicine.

Whiskeytide

(4,616 posts)
32. I think there is a stark difference between someone that ...
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 08:11 PM
5 hrs ago

… voted for Тяцмp because they were inundated with lies and were fooled into thinking he would be better than a democrat at a few things he claimed he would do, and a cult member - who can be identified because they wear his garb and fly his flags. The former can often be made to understand the error of their ways. The latter are essentially hopeless. If you wear Тяцмp merch, it means you WANT people to know what you are, and perhaps even welcome the looks because it makes you feel superior. That’s too far gone in my opinion.

6. Awesome. They only hear support from the other cult members because many of us are too polite to say anything negative.
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 05:26 PM
7 hrs ago

Thus they think everyone agrees with them. This wasn't violence or nasty in any way. Fantastic way to make your point!

KS Toronado

(22,015 posts)
23. I told a MAGAt I know real well a couple weeks back
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 07:12 PM
6 hrs ago

I can see what's coming in about 10 years, what's that he asked....

Ten years from now you'll be telling people he never fooled you and you never voted for him.

TheRickles

(3,058 posts)
19. Actually, you'd be breathing the carbon dioxide that they exhaled. But I take your point. :-)
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 06:35 PM
6 hrs ago

Collimator

(2,044 posts)
16. You could always shrug like you're considering it . . .
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 05:59 PM
7 hrs ago

. . . And then say, "Maybe. Adolph Hitler did like dogs, after all."

mountain grammy

(28,431 posts)
24. I'm glad for this post btecause it makes me think about what I would say and do in that situation..
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 07:45 PM
5 hrs ago

So, I think if someone approaches me to take a pic with my dog and that person is wearing a trump or maga hat I would say, of course but you must remove your hat...I don't want my dog to appear in a picture associated with that fool.

If he or she removes the hat, maybe we can have a conversation.

Irish_Dem

(77,782 posts)
26. I don't trust what this woman would do to your dog.
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 07:47 PM
5 hrs ago

These people can be quite dangerous as we are finding out every day.

Marie Marie

(10,703 posts)
30. As long as your dog didn't bite her in her oversized lips, I think you did all that was required of you.
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 08:02 PM
5 hrs ago

Irish_Dem

(77,782 posts)
31. And their level of moral development and sanity.
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 08:07 PM
5 hrs ago

It is like a combined IQ, personality, and morality test all in one.

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